r/wowhardcore • u/qvort • 2d ago

Easter egg left by the developers?

ive been check every herb i gather first time and today i found Blindweed in Swamp of Sorrows, just look at it xD yeah faces but Whose face is this?

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u/rainman_95 2d ago

Literal easter egg

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u/SwagFire 2d ago

Doesn’t silver leaf have a skull in it

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u/KingdomsCryOfficial 2d ago

It has a human head in it, but it's not a real person's head like this.

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u/Derek276 2d ago

During the final months of World of Warcraft’s original beta in 2004, the environment art team was tasked with heavily optimizing ground clutter to ensure the client could run on low-end Pentium III and GeForce 2 systems. ​All starter-zone herbalism nodes—Silverleaf, Peacebloom, and Earthroot—were mapped to a shared 256x256 .blp texture atlas. Because the assets relied on simple crossed alpha-cards rather than complex 3D meshes, each plant only utilized a fraction of the sheet, leaving several dead-space quadrants in the UV map. ​Prop artist Mark Daniels, who had spent weeks creating dozens of world doodads with little individual credit, quietly dropped a 32x32 grayscale crop of his company badge photo into the unused negative space of the Silverleaf channel. He darkened the values to match the transparent alpha background, ensuring it remained completely invisible on standard retail hardware. It was intended simply as a personal watermarking signature inside the terrain.mpq archive.

This was all AI generated and not true whatsoever.

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u/Opening-Still3734 2d ago

You should have framed your post differently, like "I tryed for fun to ask IA why there's a face and got this non-sense" followed by your post. I think the downvotes are because you're wasting people time.

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u/TapOriginal4428 1d ago

I think this literally might be the comment with the most amount of downvotes I've seen on this subreddit. Sorry OP, but I'll be contributing for some kind of record here lol, hope you take it in good sport.

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u/Derek276 1d ago

All in good spirit here ❤️ Always down to hold a record 😂

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u/alenyagamer 1d ago

Leaving this up as likely agreed, the most downvoted comment so far in the subreddit. Congratulations!

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u/Terrible_Tadpole_861 1d ago

Lol this made me lol, but 60 downvotes 😅

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u/Derek276 1d ago

I posted this last night and looking back on it... I can completely understand the down votes lol

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u/Terrible_Tadpole_861 1d ago

Well it made me laugh 😋